Fabricating magnetic Co-Ni-C thin-film alloys by organometallic chemical vapor deposition

Authors

Yoon-Gi Kim, Syracuse University
Dongjin Byun, Syracuse University
C. Hutchings, Syracuse University
Peter A. Dowben, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
H. Hejase, Syracuse University
K. Schröder, Syracuse University

Date of this Version

November 1991

Comments

Published by American Institute of Physics; J. Appl. Phys. 70 (1991) 6062–6064. Copyright 1991. Permission to use.

Abstract

We have deposited Co_xNi_y^-C films with a variety of compositions to verify dependence of the saturation magnetization on the composition. These experiments suggest that we can produce Co_xNi_y^-C films with a variety of magnetic properties. The Co_xNi_y^-C films were fabricated by ultraviolet decomposition of cobaltocene and nickelocene. We demonstrated that the photolytic decomposition of these metallocenes produces cyclopentadienyl (C₅H₅) species, consistent with recent studies of the energetics of the ligand metal bonds.